Bachura Scandal and Other Stories and Sketches

Bachura Scandal and Other Stories and Sketches Jaroslav Hasek was a humorist and satirist of rare order long before he wrote his celebrated novel The Good Soldier Schweik This selection of pre stories of Prague life most were translated i

Title: Bachura Scandal and Other Stories and Sketches

Author: Jaroslav Hašek

ISBN: 9780946162413

Page: 267

Format: Paperback

Jaroslav Hasek was a humorist and satirist of rare order long before he wrote his celebrated novel, The Good Soldier Schweik This selection of 32 pre 1914 stories of Prague life most were translated into English for the first time in this collection revels in the twisted logic of politics and bureaucracy in the Czech capital which was also an Austrian provincial city.

About "Jaroslav Hašek"

Jaroslav Hašek

Jaroslav Ha ek was a Czech humorist, satirist, writer and anarchist best known for his novel The Good Soldier vejk Czech Osudy dobr ho voj ka vejka za sv tov v lky , an unfinished collection of farcical incidents about a soldier in World War I and a satire on the ineptitude of authority figures, which has been translated into sixty languages He also wrote some 1,500 short stories He was a journalist, bohemian, and practical joker.

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Perhaps the funniest book of short satire I have ever read. Eastern European satire is to die for, and Czechoslovakia gave the world handful of great satirists, of whom I have to admit Hašek is the funniest!